I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.
Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken.
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
Billy Beane: How can you not get romantic about baseball?
Baseball Bat Man: Bring back the ball.
I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.
I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.
I go to the gym in a baseball cap, sweats and then run into a boy I like. It happens - so what?
Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians...
